Community Care of North CarolinaSupporting Medical Homes

AHRQ IMPaCT WebinarDecember 13th, 2011

Denise Levis Hewson, RN, BSN, MSPH

Director of Clinical Programs and Quality Improvement

Community Care of North Carolina

CCNC Networks

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Community Care Networks

Are Non-profit organizations Seek to incorporate all providers, including safety net

providers Have Medical Management Committee oversight Receive a pm/pm from the State for most enrollees Hire care management staff to work with enrollees and PCPs Participating PCPs receive a pm/pm to provide a medical

home and participate in Disease Management and Quality Improvement

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Each CCNC Network Has:

A Clinical Director A physician who is well known in the community Works with network physicians to build compliance with CCNC care

improvement objectives Provides oversight for quality improvement in practices Serves on the Sate Clinical Directors Committee

A Network Director who manages daily operations Care Managers to help coordinate services for enrollees/practices A PharmD to assist with Medication Management of high cost patients Psychiatrist to assist in mental health integration Palliative Care and Pregnancy Home Coordinators

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Current Community Care Resourcesand Infrastructure

> 4,200 primary care physicians > 1,400 medical homes > 550 local care manager (plus additional 500 local health department CMs) 30 local medical directors 20 clinical pharmacists 14 local psychiatrists 14 palliative care and pregnancy home coordinators Informatics Center providing quality and care management data to networks

and practices A central clinical staff members supporting clinical program implementation

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Patient Centered Medical Homes

Have basic PCCM contract with the State Medicaid Agency Paid FFS (currently 95% of Medicare) Have a contract with the Community Care Network which includes

all of the population management expectations and performance metrics

Community Care PCPs receive $2.50 pmpm to provide a medical home and participate in the population management efforts (disease and care management, QI, etc) Receive $5.00 pmpm for Aged, Blind and Disabled

Non-Community Care PCPs receive $1.00 pmpm Medical homes will receive a pmpm from multi-payer demos and

potential for provider incentives from 646 demonstration

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Practices want help to “de-fragment” care

Patient admitted and discharged from hospital without communication to medical home Need effective and timely communication with hospitalists /

discharge planners Need to ensure follow-up with PCP and/or specialist,

medication reconciliation See multiple specialists without effective communication to

medical home Multiple prescribers Information systems do not talk with each other

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Practices want help in managingpatients with multiple co-morbidities

Medication reconciliation Personal health record

Medication listProblemsSpecialists Action plan

Help in linking with mental healthWho is the MH provider and how can we

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Practices want help to improve quality

Outreach to patients with gaps in care Prepare patient for visit

Synchronize patient, information and visit Activate patient to self manage their disease Feed data back to the practice and help benchmark

against other practices Help educate and follow-up with the highest risk patients

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Managing Clinical Care(Spreading Best Practice)

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Current State-wide Disease &Care Management Initiatives

Asthma (1998 – 1st Initiative) Diabetes (began in 2000) Dental Screening and Fluoride Varnish (piloted for the state in 2000) Pharmacy Management

Prescription Advantage List (PAL) – 2003; Nursing Home Poly-pharmacy (piloted for the state 2002 - 2003)

Pharmacy Home (2007); E-prescribing (2008)

Medication Reconciliation (July 2009)

Emergency Department Utilization Management (began with Pediatrics 2004 / Adults 2006 ) Case Management of High Cost-High Risk (2004 in concert with rollout of initiatives) Congestive Heart Failure (pilot 2005; roll-out 2007) Chronic Care Program – including Aged, Blind and Disabled

Pilot in 9 networks 2005 – 2007

Began statewide implementation 2008 - 2009

Behavioral Health Integration (began fall 2010) Palliative Care (began fall 2010) Pregnancy Home and Care Coordination for Children with Special Needs (began April 2011) Managing the highest risk and Cost via Enhanced Analytics = “Potential Preventable Spends” (Fall 2011)

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Using the unenrolled fee-for-service population, risk adjustments were made by creating a total cost of care (PMPM) set of weights by Clinical Risk Group (CRG), with age and gender adjustments. This weight set was then applied to the entire NC Medicaid Population. Using the FFS weight set and base PMPM, expected costs were calculated. This FFS expected amount was compared to the actual Medicaid spend for 2007, 2008, 2009.  The difference between actual and expected spend was considered savings attributable to CCNC.  Analyses were conducted by Treo Solutions, LLC.

Taking the larger view: CCNC Impact on Total NC Medicaid Spending

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More information?

www.communitycarenc.org

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